This is a handwritten recipe on a white index card, date unknown.
Magic White Cake – Polly
Cream 1/2 c. shortening (crisco or spry) with 1 1/3 c sifted sugar, add 2 eggs (one at a time) beating (very) well. 1 tsp extract.
Add alternately with 1 c milk, 2 c sifted cake flour, 3 1/2 tsp B. Pdw. 1 tsp salt. (Dry ingredients sifted together three times).
Bake in two 8″ pans 25 min. at 375
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this looks like a recipe i copied from my mother’s Crisco recipe book at least 35 years ago and which i had lost. thanks very much for posting this.
i have always loved this cake. we would make it and then put chocolate chips on top instead of icing.